maya
Multiple Entries:maya Maya
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maya /ˈmɑːjə/
▶noun Hinduism the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons.
■ Hinduism & Buddhism the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world.
– origin from Sanskrit māyā, from mā ‘create’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Maya /ˈmʌɪ(j)ə, ˈmeɪ(j)ə/
▶noun (pl. same or Mayas)
- 1 a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán and other parts of Central America.
- 2 the language of the Maya.
– origin the name in Maya.
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